In reply to RomTheBear:
"It acknowledges a profound and genuine unhappiness about how the British are governed but deflects it on to Europe."
I think this is a more pertinent phrase. It fits in with the suggestion that a number of people voted for Brexit as a form of protest. An incredible naive, if not outright stupid idea.
It's almost as if the U.K. collectively suffers from some horrendous form of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
This weird, grandiose idea of British greatness, based on the belief in revised historical imperial propaganda combined with serious self esteem issues.
Somehow forgetting that the empire was merely a tool for the ruling and middle class to extract wealth from other parts of the world, using expandable manpower in the form of the servant class and local populations.
And all the problems this country has, and will have, are and will be blamed on the E.U., just as a narcissist would do. Because it's not their fault, it never is. It's always someone else's fault!
